Mary Helen Leonard, author of The Natural Beauty Solution and professionally trained culinary instructor, shares recipes, projects, tips, and stories about living a more natural, handmade, and creative life with her family in Austin, Texas.

That's right. I'm having a baby. We are just over three months along, and happily settling into the second trimester. For those of you who know us best, you'll know that it's been a bit of a windy road to get to this point. I'm feeling very grateful, very hopeful, and very hungry.

Scott Bobleo is feeling confused as to the sudden disappearance of our toilet paper supply.

As you might have expected, I started a pregnancy blog. I decided to keep it separate from Mary Makes Dinner so that is can be a place where I can talk about baby stuff in all of its wondrous yet slightly uncomfortable glory. If you like hearing about things like crying, nausea and baby poop, I invite you to go ahead and check it out. So far it's been my private diary. It does feel a bit odd to be sharing it with the world, but that's what blogging is all about, right? Here goes nothin'...